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Define surface tension.  What is the cause of surface tension?  What is its measure?
Asked by Topperlearning User | 01 Aug, 2014, 13:26: PM
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The property of a liquid due to which its free surface at rest behaves like a stretched membrane and tries to acquire a minimum surface area is known as surface tension.

The cause of surface tension is inter-molecular forces.

Surface tension is measured as force per unit length acting on arbitrary line drawn on free surface.

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